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Ken, can you remove the country filter from your website/blog? I personally didn't do anything to deserve it.

behringer 4y ago
You can support the effort against a regressive government by supporting companies that offer VPN services to that countries citizens.
kens 4y ago
Unfortunately there are also many people in Ukraine who didn't personally do anything to deserve what's happening. Consider the country filter a small reminder of the ongoing war and a suggestion that you might find better opportunities outside Russia.
- sbaiddn 4y ago
  This brings such an interesting moral dilemma. Are our inherited sins worse than our committed ones? In other words, is it more disgusting to be born Russian, or to choose to work at Google?
- nullifidian 4y ago
  - kens 4y ago
    - nullifidian 4y ago
      - IshKebab 4y ago
- userbinator 4y ago
  Stay neutral. Please don't get political. Your technical article are great but things like this will only cause divisiveness.
  - mmastrac 4y ago
    Serious question: why can't he choose who accesses his blog and use it for a small political message? Tech doesn't exist in an apolitical vacuum.
    - userbinator 4y ago
      I come here to read about tech, not indulge in virtue-signaling identity politics. There's far too much of that on the Internet as it is.
      - mmastrac 4y ago
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        userbinator 4y ago
        "woke" is only one of the recent and prominent examples of it. I'm opposed to the war too, but there's no need to antagonise the helpless visitors of a technical blog for the actions of a government they didn't choose.
        mmastrac 4y ago
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        deleted 4y ago
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        quattrofan 4y ago
- FpUser 4y ago
  >"...a suggestion that you might find better opportunities outside Russia" This is so fucked up in multiple ways I do not know what to say. Even if person is trying to flee Putin's regime - the West is actively denying entry to those people. I would understand if you were Ukrainian but it appears you are not.
- meeuwer 4y ago
  - deaddodo 4y ago
    US invasions into the Middle East weren’t literal unprovoked conquests and annexations of sovereign land. They’re in no way comparable, and if this war has done anything, it’s helped wash the blood from US hands and make those wars look acceptable. For someone like me, who was staunchly against the War in Iraq and Afghanistan on a fundamental level, it’s sad that I’ve seen an invasion and conquest egregious enough to surpass those in such a short span of time.
    - meeuwer 4y ago
      - deaddodo 4y ago
        The scale of civilian casualties from the first 6 months in Ukraine (17000 killed or injured, 1000 of whom were children; millions more in forced relocation and displacement) make the first six months of the Iraqi campaign look downright humane (~9000 total, with zero Iraqi woman and children dragged to the US to be raped/forcibly integrated into society and the vast majority of the population still in their nation throughout the campaign). That should tell you how badly Russia is seen internationally (and why random people feel the need to block you from their websites), considering the Iraqi campaign is downright villified in the West and full of inhumane tactics and scandals; so much so most Americans only speak badly of it in retrospect. The fact that you feel they are comparable means you're either naive or politically blinded. Considering comparing Ukraine to Iraq is a common tactic in Russian national media and propaganda to justify the war, I'll assume it's the latter; but give you the benefit of the doubt. There is no "morally superior" war. War is war and it's bad. Russia's war is one of the worst types of war. And even if the US' were equivalent, that doesn't justify Russia's.
        FpUser 4y ago
- bobleeswagger 4y ago
- onigiri420 4y ago
- deleted 4y ago
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- peacepractice 4y ago
  Are you really claiming the moral right to tell somebody to leave their own country, and if they don't you will do what you can to punish them? That doesn't seem right. What if they have elders to take care of? One can imagine a million circumstances. It seems to me that holding someone's national origin against them is the sort of thing that leads to wars in the first place. I love your articles and I'm sure you're a good person and just want to do something to support the victims of the war, but collective punishment is not the way. It's one of the worst things we can do to reinforce pain, resentment, and division.
bombcar 4y ago
Brave browser has Tor built in.
peacepractice 4y ago
https://archive.ph/xJAhi https://archive.ph/xJAhi http://web.archive.org/web/20221204144111/https://www.righto.com/2022/11/how-8086-processors-microcode-engine.html http://web.archive.org/web/20221204144111/https://www.righto...

You can support the effort against a regressive government by supporting companies that offer VPN services to that countries citizens.

kens 4y ago

Unfortunately there are also many people in Ukraine who didn't personally do anything to deserve what's happening. Consider the country filter a small reminder of the ongoing war and a suggestion that you might find better opportunities outside Russia.

sbaiddn 4y ago
This brings such an interesting moral dilemma. Are our inherited sins worse than our committed ones? In other words, is it more disgusting to be born Russian, or to choose to work at Google?
nullifidian 4y ago
- kens 4y ago
  - nullifidian 4y ago
    - IshKebab 4y ago
userbinator 4y ago
Stay neutral. Please don't get political. Your technical article are great but things like this will only cause divisiveness.
- mmastrac 4y ago
  Serious question: why can't he choose who accesses his blog and use it for a small political message? Tech doesn't exist in an apolitical vacuum.
  - userbinator 4y ago
    I come here to read about tech, not indulge in virtue-signaling identity politics. There's far too much of that on the Internet as it is.
    - mmastrac 4y ago
      [flagged]
      - userbinator 4y ago
        "woke" is only one of the recent and prominent examples of it. I'm opposed to the war too, but there's no need to antagonise the helpless visitors of a technical blog for the actions of a government they didn't choose.
        mmastrac 4y ago
        [flagged]
        deleted 4y ago
        [deleted]
        quattrofan 4y ago
FpUser 4y ago
>"...a suggestion that you might find better opportunities outside Russia" This is so fucked up in multiple ways I do not know what to say. Even if person is trying to flee Putin's regime - the West is actively denying entry to those people. I would understand if you were Ukrainian but it appears you are not.
meeuwer 4y ago
- deaddodo 4y ago
  US invasions into the Middle East weren’t literal unprovoked conquests and annexations of sovereign land. They’re in no way comparable, and if this war has done anything, it’s helped wash the blood from US hands and make those wars look acceptable. For someone like me, who was staunchly against the War in Iraq and Afghanistan on a fundamental level, it’s sad that I’ve seen an invasion and conquest egregious enough to surpass those in such a short span of time.
  - meeuwer 4y ago
    - deaddodo 4y ago
      The scale of civilian casualties from the first 6 months in Ukraine (17000 killed or injured, 1000 of whom were children; millions more in forced relocation and displacement) make the first six months of the Iraqi campaign look downright humane (~9000 total, with zero Iraqi woman and children dragged to the US to be raped/forcibly integrated into society and the vast majority of the population still in their nation throughout the campaign). That should tell you how badly Russia is seen internationally (and why random people feel the need to block you from their websites), considering the Iraqi campaign is downright villified in the West and full of inhumane tactics and scandals; so much so most Americans only speak badly of it in retrospect. The fact that you feel they are comparable means you're either naive or politically blinded. Considering comparing Ukraine to Iraq is a common tactic in Russian national media and propaganda to justify the war, I'll assume it's the latter; but give you the benefit of the doubt. There is no "morally superior" war. War is war and it's bad. Russia's war is one of the worst types of war. And even if the US' were equivalent, that doesn't justify Russia's.
      - FpUser 4y ago
bobleeswagger 4y ago
onigiri420 4y ago
deleted 4y ago
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peacepractice 4y ago
Are you really claiming the moral right to tell somebody to leave their own country, and if they don't you will do what you can to punish them? That doesn't seem right. What if they have elders to take care of? One can imagine a million circumstances. It seems to me that holding someone's national origin against them is the sort of thing that leads to wars in the first place. I love your articles and I'm sure you're a good person and just want to do something to support the victims of the war, but collective punishment is not the way. It's one of the worst things we can do to reinforce pain, resentment, and division.

bombcar 4y ago

Brave browser has Tor built in.

peacepractice 4y ago

https://archive.ph/xJAhi https://archive.ph/xJAhi http://web.archive.org/web/20221204144111/https://www.righto.com/2022/11/how-8086-processors-microcode-engine.html http://web.archive.org/web/20221204144111/https://www.righto...